With its disastrous withdrawal, the US has ceded Central Asia to Russia and China, according to experts
Central Asia, or the fatherland of the Turks, who call the region Turkistan, was paralysed as a result of the brutal political competition, or the ‘Great Game’, in the 19th century between former Russian and British Empires for control over the area.
“The US interest in Central Asia has considerably decreased in recent years for various reasons. Most Americans appear to accept - willingly or unwillingly - that the region is under Russian influence,” says Ikboljon Qoraboyev, associate professor of International Relations at M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, in Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan.
The US withdrawal will allow more competition from China and Russia and they will see the pullout as an opportunity to expand their influences across the region, Bryza says. In the past, Washington had kept troops in both Central Asian countries, but under Russian pressure, the US eventually left both states. Now the US literally has no military presence across Central Asia except the Kabul airport, where it seeks to evacuate all of its troops as soon as possible. during the recent Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, the US president demanded from the Russian president to allow Washington to have troops in some Central Asian states.
Instead, the US and Western bloc has been forced to confront Russia in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea as a result of Moscow’s focus on that particular region and the US has increasingly lost interest in staying in Central Asia. In terms of limiting China, the US chooses to rather face the Asian giant in the South China Sea and other maritime areas than confronting it in Central Asia, Aras tells“It means the US will conduct its Central Asia policy based on bilateral relations,” Aras adds.
“Basically, US policy has been to support economic and political stabilisation in the Central Asian republics with a minimal amount of US dollars, as well as to provide some security assistance. This was mainly to ensure regional security for Afghanistan's northern border,” says Erickson.
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